Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation in China (30270806, 30471104), the State Key Basic Research and Development Plan of China (2002CB111303), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-04-0500), and the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University.We thank the College of Life Sciences in Nanjing Agricultural University for help with SEM analysis.
A series of fiber-specific mutants, or germplasms, have been recently used in the study of fiber development. In the current study, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to investigate developmental difference...